How to Maximise Effective Purchasing

Ensure your purchasing effort produces best value whilst satisfying your organisation’s specific needs.

This 2-day intensive high level course re-examines well-tested and proven approaches to purchasing. It includes 10 tips on how to use these strategies and tactics to your best advantage
This training workshop is designed for:
• experienced staff in Purchasing, Supply & Materials Management roles as a refresher course or reminder of how their roles fit in to the Purchasing process
• less experienced or new staff in Purchasing, Supply & Materials Management roles
• other staff who would benefit from a broad understanding of the Purchasing process (eg Finance staff, Internal Auditors, Sales Managers etc)
• Specifiers, requisitioners and other end-users of the purchased goods
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
• Get a better deal for the organisation
• Reduce the company’s longer term operating costs
• Improve on-time delivery of ordered goods
• Safeguard the organisation’s reputation
• Reduce costs of the purchasing processes
Topics will include:
• Purchasing in context of company’s business
• Total procurement process – the snake
• Cost of purchasing / acquisition
• Targeted purchasing – horses for courses
• End-user specifications of what is required
• Commercial specifications forming part of the RFQ
• Finding the right suppliers
• Bid evaluation – finding the ‘best’ offer (not the cheapest one)
• Automating the purchasing process
• Planning purchasing to avoid late delivery.
This course is available for in-house delivery if required.
This course will be conducted in the English language.

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